Found Deceased SC - Brittanee Drexel, 17, Myrtle Beach, 25 April 2009 - #6

[distracted]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sou...677068&sspn=84.279592,157.324219&ie=UTF8&z=14

Thanks for the map, Debbie.

After looking at it, the two locations, OB and 7th Ave thru 11th Ave and the location you marked, are quite a bit apart. So I wonder which really is the last place she was seen. I was under the impresssion that she didn't leave OB. Does anyone know for sure?

 

[MBLover]

Seems to me there was a news story about the tracking of her cell phone when she left BWR...she walked a bit (north) and then it was evident that she turned around (whether on foot or in vehicle) and went back south according to her cell phone pings.

Which we at least know her phone went south...

Wonder if there is/was a way to tell if the pings were stronger over towards cell towers on Hwy 17/King's Hwy or were the pings stronger on OB cell towers (specifically along that stretch they searched today).

Maybe the perp(s) cut down a side street to get over to 17 instead of following OB out to 17?

I'm thinking, if the perp did cut over to get to 17 that they could get "lost" in traffic easier/quicker.

 

[nobull]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78719&highlight=lewiston

I am not saying anything but hint

Re: Lewiston (ID) Civic Theater Murders:

"Rand said the person they suspect is the killer lives on the East Coast now and works as a mail carrier."

link: http://www.klewtv.com/news/46137652.html

 

[Rochestergirl]

Three Myrtle Beach areas searched again today for Brittanee:

For close to five hours Monday, the searchers scoured a two-block, wooded lot between Yaupon Drive and Kings Highway from 17th Avenue South to 19th Avenue South; a piece of property on 18th Avenue South near an abandoned cinema and backing up to the AVX Corporation; and a large area on the old Myrtle Beach Airforce Base.

"We're just re-searching target locations in the area where she was last seen, and of course utilitizing search dogs with the CUE Center and getting assistance from the FBI," said Lt. Chuck Capp with the Myrtle Beach Police Department.

http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=361933

I still think she's probably in a rural area near the last known place of her cellphone but obviously LEO know more about the case.

It's interesting they searched an abandoned airforce base, there are alot of links with BD and the military. Her dad CD was in military, DD's boyfriend MW is in military, John H in military. Now their searching airforce base. Just interesting.

 

[Rochestergirl]

http://www2.scnow.com/scp/news/loca...brittanee_drexel_delivers_no_new_leads/80421/

Myrtle Beach police, FBI agents, and searchers with the CUE Center for Missing Persons wrapped up a search for missing teenager, Brittanee Drexel, Monday afternoon.

Monica Caison with the CUE Center says investigators wanted to search a few places in Myrtle Beach to make sure there were no clues there. Lt. Chuck Capp with the Myrtle Beach Police Dept. says the area they searched on Monday had been investigated before, but they wanted to re-visit the area in the cooler weather. He says cooler temperatures are more advantageous for the search dogs to detect any clues.

The areas searched on Monday include: Yaupon Drive near Kings Highway, 19th Ave. South off of Kings Highway, and the former Air Force Base in Myrtle Beach.

Caison and Capp say they were able to eliminate these areas for any possible leads, as the search did not produce any new information.

The CUE Center plans another big search for Drexel this weekend (Oct. 17-18). Caison says no search is planned for the missing teen until then. Capp says they will be looking in the Myrtle Beach area and Georgetown County, places that have previously been searched.

If FBI is involved why not going to teens in Rochester

 

[MBLover]

If FBI is involved why not going to teens in Rochester

Exactly! I am glad though to see that the FBI is involved!

The Airforce base - and someone from MB can correct me if I'm wrong - but it's not really abandoned. Part of it is now the Myrtle Beach Commons - a moderate to upscale shopping/living area. And part of it is like a park and has some of the old military airplanes on display. And of course the neighborhood that is also a part of that is probably the older base housing (at least some of it) and seems to be a well kept neighborhood.

 

[Debbie Miller]

If FBI is involved why not going to teens in Rochester

The best answer I can think of to do with the teens is they are not suspects in BD's disappearance, they were just there and at times with BD before this incident.

The answers lie in SC or somewhere close but not with those group of teens.

 

[PoppyH]

Just came back to Charlotte from Myrtle beach, I think about her everytime we go and how easy it would be for her to get snatched, Last time we went to MB in August we stayed on South OB, never again, its crazy down there, This time we stayed On North OB much nicer and safer it seems

 

[Debbie Miller]

1035

FBI Assistance in Missing Persons Cases

In a missing person case, as a matter of cooperation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will, at the request of a state or local law enforcement agency, make available the facilities of the FBI Identification Division and the FBI Laboratory.
Information pertaining to certain categories of missing persons, including missing children, may be entered into the missing person file of the FBI operated National Crime Information Center (NCIC) by the local law enforcement agencies and, since passage of the Missing Children Act (Pub. L. 97-272, amending, 28 U.S.C. § 534), by parents of missing children if the local law enforcement agency will not do so. [cited in USAM 9-60.100]
www.usdj.gov

 

[SkewedView]

1035

FBI Assistance in Missing Persons Cases

In a missing person case, as a matter of cooperation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will, at the request of a state or local law enforcement agency, make available the facilities of the FBI Identification Division and the FBI Laboratory.
Information pertaining to certain categories of missing persons, including missing children, may be entered into the missing person file of the FBI operated National Crime Information Center (NCIC) by the local law enforcement agencies and, since passage of the Missing Children Act (Pub. L. 97-272, amending, 28 U.S.C. § 534), by parents of missing children if the local law enforcement agency will not do so. [cited in USAM 9-60.100]
www.usdj.gov

In other words, the FBI has no ability to go barging around in other jurisdictions at the moment, and thus can't go after PB etc until there is evidence that a federal crime has been commited (homocide in the course of a kidnapping, abduction crossing state borders, prostitution crossing state borders, kidnapping involving ransom - that's all I can think of that might apply here at the moment, I think there are more that could be fudged) - until then, the kids are scott free it seems, so they could very well be suspected of involvment still.

 

[Debbie Miller]

The FBI was involved in the search yesterday, so that means that MB has asked them for their assistance. I don't believe it was just for the search.

 

[Debbie Miller]

In other words, the FBI has no ability to go barging around in other jurisdictions at the moment, and thus can't go after PB etc until there is evidence that a federal crime has been commited (homocide in the course of a kidnapping, abduction crossing state borders, prostitution crossing state borders, kidnapping involving ransom - that's all I can think of that might apply here at the moment, I think there are more that could be fudged) - until then, the kids are scott free it seems, so they could very well be suspected of involvment still.

As far as any LEA barging around and can't go after anyone until any evidence is found and linked to whoever . LE has very strict guidelines to follow. They have to be able to prove (without a shadow of a doubt) that said person(s) have committed a crime before any suspect could be brought to trial. If they don't follow the rules then the case would possibly never get justice.

That is why you hear that this person or that person is out of jail because the police had nothing to hold them on.

 

[sawbuck44]

CD was on news last night. He said Saturday night was a bad night. His cell phone rang and it came up with Brittanee's name. The phone company re-assigned her cell number and the person that got it called CD to tell him. How did he get CD's number? I can only imagine he wanted CD to know in case someone tried to call Britt's cell number again just to see who would answer.

 

[Debbie Miller]

How would the person who got BD's cell # assigned to their phone, know anything about who it belonged to? I know the phone company will wait a year or so before reassigning a # on a land line.

I would still want to know how this person knew? And why would the # still be in BD's name? This makes no sense at all.

 

[MBLover]

How would the person who got BD's cell # assigned to their phone, know anything about who it belonged to? I know the phone company will wait a year or so before reassigning a # on a land line.

I would still want to know how this person knew? And why would the # still be in BD's name? This makes no sense at all.

The phone # is going to come up that way in CD's phone because CD has his phone programmed for that # to be BD's.

Now how this person knew that they had BD's # is another story. And I am surprised that this # has been reassigned to someone so soon. I know business is business...but it looks like in an on going investigation this # would be put on hold for at least a year.

 

[Debbie Miller]

Now how this person knew that they had BD's # is another story. And I am surprised that this # has been reassigned to someone so soon. I know business is business...but it looks like in an on going investigation this # would be put on hold for at least a year.

That is what I would think too, makes ya wonder what is going on.

 

[SkewedView]

The phone # is going to come up that way in CD's phone because CD has his phone programmed for that # to be BD's.

Now how this person knew that they had BD's # is another story. And I am surprised that this # has been reassigned to someone so soon. I know business is business...but it looks like in an on going investigation this # would be put on hold for at least a year.

Now that is peculiar. All I can think of is that when CD or DD cancelled BD's account, they didn't inform MBPD of this, so no order was given by them to the cell company to freeze the account...just classic miscomunication. As far as the new owner of the number knowing he had BD's number and knowing to call CD about it, he most likely received a call from a freind of BD's (just giving it a try out of shear hope) and learned what had happened from them etc...just a theory, but the only one that I can think of that doesn't go off into a hollywood thriller script...

 

[SkewedView]

As far as any LEA barging around and can't go after anyone until any evidence is found and linked to whoever . LE has very strict guidelines to follow. They have to be able to prove (without a shadow of a doubt) that said person(s) have committed a crime before any suspect could be brought to trial. If they don't follow the rules then the case would possibly never get justice.

That is why you hear that this person or that person is out of jail because the police had nothing to hold them on.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my meaning in that post I think - by going after them, I didn't mean in terms of arrests, but bringing them in for questioning etc. You are most definitely on the spot about guidelines, and that includes the FBI having its hands tied (in terms of what pro-active actions they can take and having to play 'mother may I' with other LEAs) when they are not the lead agency in an investigation - we've heard that from them umpteen million times when people ask them why they aren't doing more on such and such an investigation. In the end, the FBI as an assisting agency is a far cry in capabilities from when they are able to declare that a federal crime has been committed and are thus able to act freely.

 

[MBLover]

Now that is peculiar. All I can think of is that when CD or DD cancelled BD's account, they didn't inform MBPD of this, so no order was given by them to the cell company to freeze the account...just classic miscomunication. As far as the new owner of the number knowing he had BD's number and knowing to call CD about it, he most likely received a call from a freind of BD's (just giving it a try out of shear hope) and learned what had happened from them etc...just a theory, but the only one that I can think of that doesn't go off into a hollywood thriller script...

I didn't mean to insinuate that there was some hinky or weird business going on and wasn't about to go off into a hollywood thriller script regarding anything to do with this phone #.

 

[Novice Seeker]

As far as any LEA barging around and can't go after anyone until any evidence is found and linked to whoever . LE has very strict guidelines to follow. They have to be able to prove (without a shadow of a doubt) that said person(s) have committed a crime before any suspect could be brought to trial. If they don't follow the rules then the case would possibly never get justice.

That is why you hear that this person or that person is out of jail because the police had nothing to hold them on.

From what we have observed recently with the Robert Manwell case, local LE does not have the exptise to deal with complex missing person cases. Yet, the FBI can't become actively involved in the case without the sole permission of the local LE. This is always an issue of territory which prevents or hinder the FBI from becoming heavily involved. This is one strict guideline that really needs to be removed with something else that allows the FBI quick and total control of the search for a missing person.

Novice Seeker